EVE Online trade routes between the trade hubs

Trade Routes is a free EVE Online hauling tool on EO-Map's map of New Eden. It compares the public order books at the five trade hubs, Jita, Amarr, Dodixie, Rens and Hek, and shows where a bulk good has been cheaper to buy at one hub than it sells for at another, after tax. The part that matters is how often the margin held: there is one bar per day for the last 30 days, so a spread that comes back day after day stands apart from a one-day spike. No account, no download, nothing to install.

What a route shows

Pick a good and Trade Routes lays out every pair of hubs for it, with a price board of each hub's lowest sell and highest buy from the latest snapshot. Select a pair and the route card gives you:

• The buy price at the first hub, its lowest sell order, and the sell price at the second, either its highest buy order or its lowest sell order depending on how you sell.
• The margin after fees, and what that comes to in ISK per unit and in ISK per m³, so you can set it against what a haul costs you.
• One bar per daily snapshot for the last 30 days. A bar above the line was profitable that day, one below was not, and a thin tick marks a day when one side had less than 10M ISK listed within 5% of its best price, too thin to count.
• A conservative profit estimate from the latest snapshot's order depth, with the units, the m³ and the ISK of buying it would take.
• Jumps: the shortest gate route, and the shortest one that stays in highsec.
• The destination region's traded volume, as a 30-day average of units per day from EVE Online's public market history.

Two ways to sell, two sets of skills

A conservative estimate, on purpose

The best price in an order book is often only a few units deep. So the estimate walks the latest snapshot's depth and assumes the worst: past the best price, every unit trades at the worst price in its depth band, first within 2% of the best and then within 5%, and it stops at the first unit that would lose money after fees. The answer is the order book as it stood at the snapshot, not a promise. Other traders move first, and orders change by the hour.

Most hub spreads on bulk goods are thin, and many do not survive that treatment. That is what the tool is for: it shows the few spreads that keep coming back, rather than whatever looked good in one snapshot.

Recurring routes across every tracked good

Below the route card, Recurring routes ranks every tracked good and hub pair by how many of the 30 days the conservative estimate cleared 1M ISK, selling to buy orders. Each row gives the typical profit on those days and the ISK a typical day's buying ties up, so a big profit that needs billions of ISK of stock reads differently from a small one that needs little. Each skills preset has its own ranking, so the untrained list is not a filtered copy of the trained one. Click a row to open that good and route.

On the map

While Trade Routes is open it draws on the map. Curved arcs join the hubs where the chosen good's margin held on at least three days in ten, with dashes flowing from where you buy to where you sell. A brighter arc means a wider margin and a heavier one means more days. The flow slows to a stop about 20 seconds after you last touch the map, so an idle map goes quiet. The selected pair's gate route is drawn in your accent colour, and each hub carries a price tag for the good. Arcs are price differences between two hubs, not measured cargo movement.

What it tracks, and where the prices come from

EO-Map takes its own snapshot of the public order books at the five hubs once a day, around 01:00 to 02:00 UTC, and Trade Routes reads the last 30 days of it from one small daily file on EO-Map's snapshot host. It covers NPC stations only. Orders in player structures are not public, so a structure market can be cheaper or dearer than anything shown here. If a day's file was not published, the panel shows the most recent earlier day and says so.

Only bulk trade goods are tracked: minerals, ice products, fuel blocks, moon and reaction materials, planetary commodities, gas, salvage, components, datacores, charges, skill injectors and compressed ore, and of those only the ones traded with real depth on both sides of the book at the hubs. Ships, modules and low-volume niche items are left out on purpose.

The destination's traded volume is the one figure from outside that file. When Trade Routes shows a route, and it shows one as soon as it opens, your browser asks EVE Online's public market history API (ESI) for the destination region's trade history in that good. It is a public lookup with no login, and nothing about you is reported to EO-Map. The figure covers the hub's whole region. It tells you whether there are buyers; it is not a promise that your volume will sell. Your last good, skills preset and way to sell are remembered in this browser.

How to open it

1. Open Tools Library in the left rail and pick Trade Routes on the Economy tab, or use the link below.
2. Pick a good from the Item list, which is grouped by kind.
3. Set Skills to Trained or Untrained, and choose Sell to Buy Orders or List for Sale.
4. Pick a hub pair from the good's routes, or click a row under Recurring routes.
5. Read the route card, then check the prices in game before you haul.

Part of EO-Map

Trade Routes is one tool on EO-Map's interactive 3D map of New Eden. The same map charts a good's daily trade history by region, shows where it is listed for sale across the cluster, and plans the gate route to haul it, so a margin reads next to the geography it depends on.

Related tools

• Market history, for what a good actually traded at in each hub's region, day by day.
• Market supply, for where a good is listed for sale across New Eden, not only at the hubs.
• Route planner, to plan the haul with security limits and waypoints.
• Regional economy, for official monthly trade totals by region.
• Industry cost index, for where building is cheap and where it is crowded.
• All EO-Map features.

Frequently asked questions